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W. T. LITTLEJOHN. MANGLE.

No. 25,656'. Patented Oct. 4, 1859.

Farms no, mom-uma.. wmnaron u c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W. T. LITTLEJOHN, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN'.

MANG'LE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,656, dated October 4, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WV. T. LITTLEJOHN, of Kalamazoo,in the county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Mangle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a vertical section of my invention taken in the line w, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front view of ditto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in an improved mode of graduating the pressure of the rollers on the clothes, whereby the mechanism is placed under the complete control of;

the operator, and the device rendered eX- tremely simple and efficient.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and const-ruct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a framing on the upper part of which two parallel and horizontal rollers B, C, are placed, side by side. The roller- B, has its journals a, a, fitted in permanent bearings but the journals b, of roller C, have their bearings in the upper ends of levers D, D, which are secured to the framing A, by fulcrum pins c, c, the lower ends of the levers D, D, being connected by a traverse bar E. In the framing A, a spring E, is secured. This spring may be simply an elastic wooden bar or metal rod the lower end of which bears against the traverse bar- E, of the levers D, D and has a tendency to keep the roller C, free from B. This will be fully understood by referring to Fig. 1.

` To the traverse bar E, of the levers D, D, a bar G, is attached and projects from it at right angles. To the outer end of the bar G, a rope H, is secured and this rope is co-nnected to a treadle I, in the lower part of the framing. The bar G, rests on a bar J, of the lower part of the framing and the rope H, which is attached to the bar Gr, nean its outer end passes over the bar J, to its inner side where it is attached to the treadle I.

To the axis of the roller B, at one end a crank K, is attached, by which the roller B, is rotated manually.

The clothes, shown in red, pass between the two rollers B, C, and are subjected to the requisite pressure by pressing down the treadle I, with the foot, the treadle as it. descends forcing outward the bar G, and consequently the lower part of the levers D, D,

the roller C, being thereby ino-ved toward B, and effecting the desired result.

I1 am aware that rollers have been commonly used for mangling clothes, and I do not claim such device; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

The arrangement of the levers D, D, with roller C, at their upper end, the spring F, bar G, connected to the treadle I, by the rope H, in combination with stationary roller B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

W. T. LITTLEJOHN.

Vitnesses:

H. STEWART, C. H. GooDAL. 

